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A lava lamp is a decorative lamp, invented in 1963 by British entrepreneur Edward Craven Walker, the founder of the lighting company Mathmos. It consists of a bolus of a special coloured wax mixture inside a glass vessel, the remainder of which contains clear or translucent liquid.
- Edward Craven Walker Designs The Modern Lava Lamp
- The Lava Lamp's Secret Recipe
- Lava Lamp Sales and Success
- How The Basic Lava Lamp Works
The liquid-filled inventor proceeded to purchase the equally liquid-filled lamp, whose creator (Mr. Dunnett) Walker later discovered had died. Walker became determined to make a better version of the novelty item and spent the next decade and a half doing so (in between running an international house-swap agency and making films about nudism.) Walk...
Edward Craven Walker perfected a secret Lava recipe of oil, wax, and other solids. The original model had a large gold base with tiny holes to simulate starlight, and a 52 oz globe that contained red or white Lava and yellow or blue liquid. He marketed the lamp in Europe under the name of Astro Lamp. Two American entrepreneurs saw the lava lamp dis...
Before selling his company, sales of the lamps had exceeded seven million units. Today with over 400,000 lava lamps made each year, the Lava Lamp is enjoying a comeback. Craven Walker's original company, the Crestworth Company, changed names to Mathmosin 1995 (a reference to the bubbling force in Barbarella.) They still manufacture the Astro, Astro...
Base: Holds a 40 watt frosted appliance light bulbinside a reflecting cone. This cone rests on a second cone, which houses the light bulb socket and electrical cord connection. The electrical cord has a small in-line switch on it and a standard US 120v plug. Lamp:A glass container containing two fluids, called water and lava, both trade secrets. A ...
- Mary Bellis
Edward Craven Walker (4 July 1918 – 15 August 2000) was a British inventor, [1] who invented the psychedelic Astro lamp, also known as the lava lamp. [2] [3] [4]
Learn how Edward Craven Walker, a British accountant and nudist filmmaker, invented the lava lamp in the 1960s. Discover how the lava lamp became a symbol of the counterculture and psychedelic era, and how it evolved over time.
- Abigail Tucker
Apr 10, 2015 · The Lava Lamp is an archetypal product of the 1960s and 1970s. Its waxy blobs, illuminated and heated from its metal base, slowly merge together and split apart inside a slender glass rocket....
Edward Craven Walker is credited with having developed the classic version of the lava lamp in 1948 after he saw an egg timer in a bar in Hampshire, England, made of a glass shaker placed in a pan with a boiling egg.
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Aug 30, 2013 · Edward Craven Walker was inspired to create the lava lamp after admiring an oil and water-based ornament he had spotted on display in the country inn - and in September 1963 he set up a...
